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  2. The Winklevoss twins and their friend, Divya Narendra, conceived of a social network in late 2002 that sounds a lot like Facebook. It was called HarvardConnection and it was intended for college students, not just at Harvard but at schools around the country.

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  3. Dec 31, 2023 · Entertainment. Who are the Winklevoss twins and where are they now? From scoring a US$65 million payout from Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and competing in the 2008 Beijing Olympics to crypto fraud...

  4. Winklevoss twins refers collectively to: Cameron Winklevoss (born 1981), American investor, rower, and entrepreneur. Tyler Winklevoss (born 1981), American investor, rower, and entrepreneur. Category: Set index articles.

  5. May 22, 2024 · The Winklevoss twins Cameron and Tyler were born in August 1981 in Southampton, New York. Their parents, Howard E. Winklevoss and Carol (née Leonard), raised the twins and their older sister Amanda in Greenwich, Connecticut. Howard served the University of Pennsylvania as an adjunct professor of actuarial science.

  6. Nov 5, 2023 · Following the release of the 2010 movie, The Social Network, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss tried to join new startups in Silicon Valley. They later went on to found two new companies. In 2012, the Winklevoss twins founded Winklevoss Capital Management, a venture capital with headquarters in New York.

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  7. Winklevoss and his brother are known for co-founding HarvardConnection (later renamed ConnectU) along with Harvard classmate Divya Narendra. In 2004, the Winklevoss twins sued Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, claiming he stole their ConnectU idea to create the social networking site Facebook.

  8. Apr 30, 2019 · The Winklevoss twins believed Zuckerberg had wronged them in 2004 by stealing their idea for what became Facebook, had wronged them a second time by deep-sixing the damaging I.M.s during ...